Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-04

Among the odd wooden gowns for home
wear is one in brown with panels or
fancy check. 1t is laced across the
front. and the velvet revers and cuffs are
braided with gold. The now fashionable
Swiss belts are generally worn with full
shocked bodices, which are very becom-
ing to little figures.
Another house dress, made Of new
brown, is lined throughout with
silk. From the yoke at the neck
fall cream folds of clairette in ia uu-
broken line to the feet, and the narrow
sleeves have white turn back cuffs. A
drmure and very becoming gown IS this
for pretty woman.
Also Tor nome wear Is neat dress OF
soft wooden goods and surah. The tgblier
or front OF the silk is bordered with a
hSud of plush applique The princess
cvrrdress of wooden stuff has doubled
reyers, finished with plIsh. At each side
OF the skirt is a cluster of pleats, and the
back S gracefully draped.
REALLY a LOVELY GOWN.
The style may be called Anglo-Greek,
being an adoption of Grecian draperIes to
the fashions of our own day. The dress
soft and rich in texture. Over this is
draped the very finest and softest crepe
de chine, also poppy red. On one Shout
der the crepe IL arranged like a sleeve,
being gathered on the top of the arm in
classic folds. Thence q long piece
fIlls perfectly straight, dropping
in line from the elbow, the
arm emerging perfectly free rom this
nIA
background for the whteness There Is
no sleeve on the other arm. Folds Of the
crepe are SO arranged on the front of he
bodice as to recall the draperies of q
Greek statue. Each fold is accounted
for. Not one seems to lack a motive
This is, l fancy, the true art of the mo-
diste. On the skirt, ct the left side, the
crepe is in slender, undulating line,
while on the other, a long drapery from
the left shoulder ms with scarf from
the front, and ties low ON the skirt in a
careless bow. The satin skirt beneath is
Just long enough to rest little on the
ground, and it is edged with tiny plest-
ing of either satin or crepe. l think you
will agree with me that that is lovely
gown Madge in London Truth.
POLONAISE REVIVED.
The new French polOnaise is very eff
fective, made of the finest cancels hair
or ladies' cloth, over plain velvet skirts
The fronts turn back from belt to hem,
and big white revers of velvet are set
upon these. The front of the corsage
also turns back in revers from the waist
up to the shoulders, and discloses a vest
of embroidered silk or of satin laid in fine
plests belted at the waist and terminating
there. At the sides are wide velvet peck
cts, and the back of the polonsise is very
long AID but little draped. Still another
pOlonaise is like the Russian reGingOte
worn last winter, and so nearly Con-
ceals the lower dress that only the plain
est skirt Is necessary, with q bit of foot
pleating at the extreme edge. Dark vio-
let heIiOtrOpe or navy blue wool diagunals,
with Persian stripes, are made up in this
style, with dull red velvet accessories as q
finish. Although most of the new designs
in pOlOnaiSes are severe, long and stately
in effect, there are number of more
boufflnt and youthful looking models,
which will appear among the stylish street
costumes of cancels hair and imperial
serge already in preparation for early
spring wear.
RECEPTION DRESS.
For q reception dress of black satin the
front of the skirt is yelled by q long
shawl-like apron, draped very high on
one side, of black Brussels net, heavily
embroidered with dark red and gold silk.
This again is edged with an elaborate
lace-embroidered edge in old gold. The
underskirt is plain, having boX-pleated
panel of the silk on the side not yelled by
the neXt,and full bournou- pleated drapery
in the back. The bodice is a short,
pointed basque, the bust yelled with d
pointed Brussels net vest, edged with en-
broidery matching that on the apron
front, and embroidered with pendants of
loops of garnet beads. The sleeves, which
are tight fitting and of the silk, have q
deep, full puff of the same bead-embroi-
dered net, falling over the hand.
NOTES
Gray grows more and more popular.
Girls under thirteen wear their frocks
without overskirts.
Russian net with scalloped edge is
used for wells.
Lady's cloth in light tints is the latest
novelty in dress fabrics.
Demi-trained dresses are used at home
and for receptions.
Jet passementerle on green cloth dresses.
"Ashes of roses" is once more fash
ionable tint, but it has been rechristened
sold pink"
A whlm Dame Fashion has INDUCED in
this winter is the use of swans down on
I evening bodices.
HeadGresSes are worn more and more
by married women to dinners and evening
entertainments.
Decorative Scarfs for the drawing
anese art satin, boiling cloth and Persian
silk.
Slippers should match the toilet. They
are made rather pointed at the toe, with
low vamp and without other finish than
knot of ribbon.
Two rosettes were recently made-one
for the hair and the other to be worn at
the left side of lOw-necked dress, placed
close to the armhole.
Lengths OF wideribbons, finished with a
bow tied around the arm, are sometimes
worn as q finish with the long gloves so
popular for evening wear.
Among the audacious combinations of
color used this season by French modistes
may be mentioned ciel blue and mauve,
red and light blue and heliotrope and Or
ange.
pretty fancy for trimming black
velvet bonnets is to make a fan bow OF
| Chqntilly lace, tied with brieht-colored
velvet ribbon, and set as an aigrette di,
! rectly in front.
The severely plain shirt, with no finish
at the edge, has been abandoned by lead,
| ing modistes, and there is g return tc
| the narrow dainty foot-pleating, or the
ruche made OF fringed or pleated silk.
| The preference is still for made bow
! of velvet in place of tied strings for bon-
/ nets 1t is now worn slightly larger and